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RAS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Towards long-lived robot genes
Robot projects are often evolutionary dead ends, with the software and hardware they produce disappearing without trace afterwards. Common causes include dependencies on uncommon ...
Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Effects of Polite Behaviors Expressed by Robots: A Case Study in Japan
— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
Tatsuya Nomura, Kazuma Saeki
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Comparing a computer agent with a humanoid robot
HRI researchers interested in social robots have made large investments in humanoid robots. There is still sparse evidence that peoples' responses to robots differ from their...
Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler, Susan R. Fussell, C...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
123views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Human Mental Models of Humanoid Robots
– Effective communication between a person and a robot may depend on whether there exists a common ground of understanding between the two. In two experiments modelled after huma...
Sau-lai Lee, Sara B. Kiesler, Ivy Yee-man Lau, Chi...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
132views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
The Role of Expressiveness and Attention in Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract— This paper presents the results of an experiment in human-robot social interaction. Its purpose was to measure the impact of certain features and behaviors on people’...
Allison Bruce, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Reid G. Simmon...